藝術家Edward Augustus BRACKETT (1818-1908) 生平簡歷

出生地： Vassalboro, ME

死亡地点： Winchester, MA

地址： Massachusetts, primarily in Boston

职业： Portrait sculptor

教育： Self-taught

展出： Apollo Association, 1840-41; NAD, 1841, 1850, 1866; Boston Atheneum, 1843-1866; PAFA

工作： NYHS; MMA; Worcester Art Mus. (Shipwrecked Mother and Child"); Mount Auburn Cemetary, Cambridge, Mass.(including the life-size statue of Reverend Hosea Ballou)"

评论： Worked in Cincinnati c.1841 and in the same year exhibited at the National Academy as a resident of NYC. From 1842 on, he was active in Boston. He was primarily a portrait sculptor, modeling the likeness of such luminaries as his friend Washington Allston (MMA), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Charles Sumner. His work, some of which is located at Mount Auburn Cemetary (Cambridge, Mass.) has been described as imaginative but at times disturbing in its realism. Most controversial was his Shipwrecked Mother and Child," a story piece that when shown at the Boston Athenaeum in 1852 was considered too horrifically authentic in its portrayal of the waterbloated, lifeless figures. He gave up sculpture in 1873 and spent much of his time writing poetry; he also served as head of the Mass. Fish and Game Commission. He was an older brother of the portrait painter, Walter M. Brackett (see entry).

来源： G&W; DAB; Cist, Cincinnati in 1841; Cowdrey, NAD; NYBD 1841; Boston BD 1844-53, 1855-60; Swan, BA, 205; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Gardner, Yankee Stonecutters; Lee, Familiar Sketches, 194-202; Met. Mus. Bulletin, III (Oct. 1944), 57, repro. See also Craven, Sculpture in America; 187-89; Baigell, Dictionary; WW09."